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Key Nursing Journals

Nurses as Authors

Search for Nurse as an author in CINAHL:  Filter by any author is a nurse or, primary author is a nurse

Search for Nurse as an author in Pubmed:

Use the search term:  nursing [ad]

This will search for "nursing" in the authors affiliated institution.  

Search for Nurse as an author in other databases:

Look for these credentials:  LVN, LPN, RN, BSN, MSN, ND, DNSc OR DNP

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  • Check the Review Articles box to retrieve literature reviews, systematic reviews, and integrative reviews.
  • Check the EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) box in order to retrieve mostly systematic reviews
  • Selecting Meta-Analysis from the Publication Type will also retrieve systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Check the Research box to retrieve results containing reviews

Note:
Look in the text immediately following the article title for a indication of what type of article it is, Research, Systematic Review, etc.

 

Therapy or Etiology: Use article type filters Meta-analysis, Systemic Reviews and Random controlled trial. Add Cohort Studies [Mesh} to the search

Diagnosis: Add Sensitivity and Specificity [Mesh] to the search

Prognosis: Add Cohort Studies [Mesh] to the search

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